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The “Meant to be a Mentor” workbook is a practical guide for EVS mentors working with their volunteer(s). Its content and activities guide mentors step by step through the whole EVS project cycle. Mentors can carry out the activities with their volunteers, reflect on their experience and share their good practise in an online community (a link to this online community is provided in the article). Read more

“The undiscovered country” is about learning through experience during European Voluntary Service and introduces our three main topics. These topics are explored in the following three chapters “Future“, “Personal development“ and “Managing change“, both from a more or less “theoretical” and from a practical point of view. Thoughts, ideas, outlines of methods and tools may serve as an inspiration for how to work on this topic during EVS seminars and meetings. Read more

A propos Polski is above all directed at people who take on the challenge to live and work in Poland as volunteers in the frame of the YOUTH Programme. It includes some information on discovering Poland and a lot of useful practical hints as well as links to other sources.
All in all, this brochure serves as a starting point and aims at showing you a lot of doors. Some of them will allow you to get an idea of what’s behind, but to really see what the rooms behind the doors look like, you’ll have to find those doors yourself in Poland… Read more

This brochure is a collection of games and exercises: from bringing individuals together, breaking the ice, activating groups, developing trust, untill reflecting and evaluating the group work and process.Games & Exercises is meant for leaders and facilitators of international workcamps and seminars. Read more

Hello! My name is Michael Kimmig. I help people develop intercultural awareness and competence. I write about Living and Working abroad, International Youth Work and Voluntary Work as well as Intercultural, Non-formal and Life-Long Learning.Find out more about me...

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I support and empower individuals, teams and organizations operating in an intercultural context who would like to develop and improve intercultural communication and competence by offering seminars, workshops, trainings and coaching (on- and offline). Learn more